A photo of a polar bear sleeping in a bed of flowers in the Arctic won the 2024 Nature Photography Contest, the competition ...

Here Wilhelm and Franz Joseph, the emperor of Austria, are sent scurrying for safety by Russia, depicted as a polar bear in a Cossack hat. A Russian soldier laughing at an Ottoman Turk.

The current polar bear population stands at 20,000-25,000 and some 5,000-7,000 inhabit the Russian Arctic. The Soviet Union banned polar bear hunting back in 1956. "The entire law enforcement ...

Between 1870 and 2014, there were 73 confirmed polar bear attacks distributed among the Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and the U.S areas in which 20 people were killed and 63 injured ...

In 2006, an unusual polar bear was seen in the Northwest Territories ... The Institute of Permafrost Studies (the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch), has analyzed data from 52 weather ...

A polar bear has been shot dead in a remote Icelandic ... in Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and the US. But the frequency is increasing: 15 of those attacks took place this century.

A polar bear cub named Nur was introduced in Sao Paulo on Thursday, marking a historic milestone as the first polar bear born in Latin America, according to the Sao Paulo Aquarium, where she resides.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Some of 2461 polar swimmers get out of the water after breaking a ...

The polar bear is a beautiful and almost mythical creature ... Polar bears live solely among the Arctic sea ice in Alaska, Canada, Russia, Norway, and Greenland. There are 19 sub-populations ...

Emmanuel Rondeau / WWF-UK "I will never forget my 'first' polar bear. Today, it still drives me to do all we ... Polar bears range across the Arctic Ocean, in parts of Canada, Alaska, Russia, ...